Climbing Tal's Hill » San Diego Padres http://climbingtalshill.com A Houston Astros Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:29:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 A.L. West Cactus League results http://climbingtalshill.com/2013/02/23/a-l-west-cactus-league-results/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2013/02/23/a-l-west-cactus-league-results/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:47:26 +0000 Greg Thurston http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=5756 A couple of the Astros new division rivals started their exhibition schedules Friday in Arizona. The Texas Rangers played to a 5-5 tie against Kansas City and the Seattle Mariners were blown out by the Padres. Rangers kiss their sister Derek Holland got the start and went three innings for the Rangers, allowing one run [...]

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]]> A couple of the Astros new division rivals started their exhibition schedules Friday in Arizona. The Texas Rangers played to a 5-5 tie against Kansas City and the Seattle Mariners were blown out by the Padres.

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]]> http://climbingtalshill.com/2013/02/23/a-l-west-cactus-league-results/feed/ 0 Padres outlast Astros 8-7 in 10 innings http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/06/26/padres-outlast-astros-8-7-in-10-innings/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/06/26/padres-outlast-astros-8-7-in-10-innings/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00:08 +0000 Alex Sandoval http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=4074 Some days you just have to shake your head and shrug your shoulders, last night was one of those nights. The Astros best pitcher, Wandy Rodriguez, struggled early with the worst offense in baseball and the team would fall in 10 innings 8-7. Wandy would regroup and close out his start strong and with the [...]

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]]> Some days you just have to shake your head and shrug your shoulders, last night was one of those nights. The Astros best pitcher, Wandy Rodriguez, struggled early with the worst offense in baseball and the team would fall in 10 innings 8-7. Wandy would regroup and close out his start strong and with the lead, giving up 5 runs through 6 2/3 innings. The Astros offense continued to come back strong and showed good power but the bullpen would let another lead slip away. Tough loss to one of the worst teams in baseball especially considering the Stros had come off taking 2 out of 3 from Cleveland.

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The offense was not to blame, even without Jose Altuve, they put up a 7 spot only to see it not hold up. Carlos Lee finally got another HR, which is a welcomed sight. As did Jason Castro, both players had been absent from that category for some time. For that matter, Brian Bixler also went deep  along with collecting another hit. Overall a nice night for Bixler filling in for Jose Altuve who should be back shortly. Another welcomed sight was J.D. Martinez collecting two hits and Chris Johnson staying hot with a pair of his own.

As strong as the offense performed, the staff was not as impressive. Wandy had a rough start and the bullpen could not hold down the worst offense in baseball. Credit Wandy for re-grouping and closing out his start strong, retiring the last ten batters he faced, but overall a tough outing for the veteran lefty. Fernando Rodriguez continued to struggle, giving up a two run homer in the 8th. Martinez’ ERA is 6.28, not sure how much longer he can stay at the big league level. Brandon Lyon would ultimately give up the losing run in the tenth inning and cap a tough night for the home town nine.

The Astros return to action tonight against the Padres trying to strike revenge while going against Kip Wells who is returning to big league ball after some time off.

]]> http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/06/26/padres-outlast-astros-8-7-in-10-innings/feed/ 0 Astros Take Game, Series From Indians http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/06/24/astros-take-game-series-from-indians/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/06/24/astros-take-game-series-from-indians/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:59:08 +0000 Brian Hamilton http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=4067 J.A. Happ took the mound vs Derek Lowe and the Indians today for the rubber game of a three games series. The hometown nine won the game, 7-1 and the series, 2-1. For the third time in five games, the Astros were held hit-less through the first three innings, but that wouldn’t last for long as the [...]

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]]> J.A. Happ took the mound vs Derek Lowe and the Indians today for the rubber game of a three games series. The hometown nine won the game, 7-1 and the series, 2-1. For the third time in five games, the Astros were held hit-less through the first three innings, but that wouldn’t last for long as the Astros would bang out twelve hits over the final five innings to down the Indians. J.A. Happ was up to the task as he pitched seven strong innings, throwing 111 pitches, giving up one earned run while walking two and striking out five. He lowered his ERA to 4.83 as well.

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